dwrighter
06-29-2001, 01:57 PM
I've just entered the Linux world and freely admit I am totally lost,but am very interested in learning.I am running win2000 currently and installed suse 7.1 to a seperate 12gb hard drive.I had the drive into 2 primary partitions hda=4gb and hdb=7 gb.I wanted to put Linux on the hda 4gb part. but it won't allow me to and insisted I had to use the 7gb or the entire drive.I tried to restruture the drive with PM 6.0 four or five different ways and eventually gave up and installed it on the entire drive.Could somebody give me some advice as I have just recieved Mandrake 8.0 and would like to install it on another drive without using the entire 30gb drive.
Xsecrets
06-29-2001, 02:31 PM
well maybe you need to read up on partitioning in linux cause you are obviously confused about something but I can't tell quite what. you could not have partitioned one drive into hda and hdb. hda is the first drive on your primary ide controler and hdb is the second drive on your primary ide controler if you indeed created two partitions on your second hard drive they would be hdb1 and hdb2 or hdb5 depending on whether or not you used a logical partition for the second one.
reboot
06-29-2001, 02:55 PM
Here's the easy way.
You've got Windows installed on C:, which in Linux is HDA1.
Figure out where you want to put Linux.
Your second hd, if slaved to the master, is HDB1 (the 1 being the first partition).
If you have the hd as secondary master, it's HDC1, and secondary slave is HDD1.
So, if I read your post right, you have a second HD that's 12gb, and you want Linux on that.
First, set the 12gb drive up as secondary master. This will make it HDCx.
Partition the drive. I would recommend about 3 gig for Linux, you won't need more. Partition the rest the way you want it. I used 5 gig, and it's overkill.
Start the install, and when you get to the partitioning portion, click on HDC, then UNmount, the partition you want (HDC1). Now you select the mount point, being / and specify about 1.5 gig for it, then mount the swap, being about 250k, then mount the /home, being the remainder of the free space. Continue the install. The remaining partitions on the HD will not be touched.
Clear as mud?
[ 29 June 2001: Message edited by: reboot ]